talk about HIGH maintenance!!!
Posted on 08/18/2004 2:24:25 PM PDT by MadIvan
TERESA HEINZ KERRY, America’s would-be First Lady, reinforced her reputation for blunt speaking yesterday by admitting that her husband was not qualified to hold the office.
“I think nobody is truly qualified to be President of the United States,” she said, displaying the plain speaking that has become her trademark, a possible liability for John Kerry’s campaign.
“I mean, are you qualified to run the world . . . not run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is,” she said in the latest edition of Reader’s Digest.
Many American voters may be drawn to the evident reasoning behind her argument. But others are likely to be less sympathetic. Presidential campaigns rarely admit to any human frailty on the part of their candidate.
Her honesty apparently fell flat with Reader’s Digest, which said that the message she left hanging in the air was: “Vote for John. He’s less poorly qualified than the other guy.”
It was not the first time that Mrs Kerry has drawn attention with a directness that her husband’s campaign insists is an advantage.
The widow of a Republican senator, and a former Republican herself, she once admitted voting for the current President’s father. “I don’t think the son is the father, and the father’s not the son,” she added.
Mr Kerry followed in his wife’s footsteps by baring his soul in the September edition of GQ.
Perhaps seeking to draw a comparison with the teetotal President and pre-empt more embarrassing questions about his personal life, the Democrat revealed a liking for Charlize Theron. The South African actress was “pretty extraordinary”, he told the magazine in an interview entitled “A Beer with John Kerry”. Catherine Zeta-Jones was another favourite, along with Marilyn Monroe, who was funny, complicated and “ obviously very attractive”.
The US Senator also tried to fill in some of the missing years in his personal story for voters — the period after his first marriage ended in divorce and before he married Teresa Heinz.
“Those were not good days,” he said of his time as a bachelor on Capitol Hill. “That’s not a good world, and everyone wants a piece of you, and all I can say is, thank God I found Teresa.”
He waxed lyrical about the attributes that drew him to his wife. “Look for what gets your heart,” he told the interviewer. “Someone who excites you, turns you on.”
She should have character, be smart, confident and a “full woman”, someone who “knows how to flirt and have fun” and be “sexy and saucy and challenging”.
I'm still imagining what the outrage in the media would have been if Laura Bush told a reporter to "shove it."
I'm still imagining what the outrage in the media would have been if Laura Bush told a reporter to "shove it."
Botox and Detox -- what a couple.
HOW ABOUT A TRY AT JUST RUNNING THIS NATION, you freak'in globalist. Forget about the French, Germans etc.
I absolutely agree. Overmedicated, too.
Unfortunately, Kerry's handlers started reigning her in after her "shove it", Dem convention whammy. Hopefully it's only temporary.
Yep. We all know she and John are flaming socialists.
Oh, keep talkin', honey. Your blowing it.
And we love it.
ROFLOL! I nominate this to the FReeper lexicon!
talk about HIGH maintenance!!!
Botox and Detox!!!!!! I love it!!!
Hillary Rodham Clinton
(July 26, 2004, NY Daily News)
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Cake, she does act that way and have you noticed THK keeps her head down a lot? What's she hiding or ashamed of? I kind of like her hairstyle but that's it... detox is right. She cannot stand up straight and he's a flip flopper. What a pair of floppers.
"Thank god I was there to console the grieving, rich widow."
Maybe she is just trying to protect her fortune.
If Kerry wins, there are four years ahead in which things could go wrong, and each time there is a potential that people would take it out on her ketchup business.
She can't publicly withdraw support for her husband, that would hurt her business too. Thus, Kerry's put her in an impossible situation.
So she publicly support's Kerry, but in a less than enthusiastic way. Hence, her stance of "Vote for Kerry, He's not qualified, but is more so than the other guy."
Really, Kerry might get the pity vote. But anyone with any sense is going to realize that a man needs a supportive wife, especially the President.
You're not telling me her remarks are supportive of him, are you?
That link was a HOOT! What a great find!
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